How to solve the package does not match intended download error?

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Issue

  • Unable to install a custom rpm package from a custom channel on satellite 5.5. The following error message is given when trying to install the custom package on the client:
Error Downloading Packages:
  custompackage.noarch: failed to retrieve getPackage/custompackage.rpm from customchannel
error was [Errno -1] Package does not match intended download. Suggestion: run yum --enablerepo=customchannel clean metadata

Environment

  • Red Hat Network Satellite 5.5
  • Red Hat Satellite 5.6
  • Red Hat Satellite 5.7
  • Red Hat Satellite 5.8

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